This nine page resource is an extraordinary compilation of literature and resources that every colleague in the field of education abroad should read or at least have knowledge of their existence. Are you trying to break into the field of education abroad or more broadly into the field of international education? If so, pick a reading off this list and start consuming! Are you teaching a course on the internationalization/globalization of higher education? If so, at a minimum link to and highlight this resource but more importantly you can find your required readings among the 77 listed readings and six key references.

Ogden breaks the readings down by the following 21 major knowledge areas followed by the key references:

The list of authors of these foundational readings are a who's who of scholar-practitioners in the field and there are many colleagues that I have collaborated with on projects, co-authored book chapters or as the book editor, committees and task forces, presentations and workshops or in other endeavors such as Skyping in to a graduate level course as a guest speaker on international education. Some of these authors are good friends and we have collaborated more in depth while some of these authors and I have only shared a microphone during a conference panel presentation and haven't collaborated beyond being invited to and showing up to the panel. To be sure, there are many authors of these foundational readings that I know well but have yet to formally collaborate and there are others I have yet to meet in person or formally interact with electronically via email or Twitter or via some NAFSA online discussion forum but I hope to some day! A list of the authors who I have collaborated with, large & small, follows (in no particular order):

Anthony Ogden

Gary Rhodes

Martin Tillman

Darla Deardorff

Bruce La Brack

Hans de Wit

the late Tony Adams

William Gertz

Michael Woolf

Bill Hoffa

Davina Potts

Bernhard Streitwieser

Gayle Woodruff

Michael Vande Berg

Martha Johnson

Margaret Wiedenhoeft

Mell Bolen

Lilli Engle

Victor Savicki

Richard Sutton

Gerald Fry

Elizabeth Stallman

John Hudzik

Jae-Eun Jon

I've been very fortunate to cross paths with so many wonderful people and contributors to the field of international education!

Friday, July 14, 2017

Nice to see that Dr. Esther Brimmer, Executive Director and CEO of
NAFSA: Association of International Educators, was appointed to the National Security Education Board. My guess is that she was appointed by President Obama
during the last months he was in office as the announcement that she was to
become NAFSA's Executive Director and CEO was made in late September 2016.

You can learn more about the NSEB and see the see who are board members
at:

Proposals should support the conference theme—Study Abroad: Meeting the Challenges of Cultural Engagement—and mission of the association. We are especially interested in proposals that address the following topics:

New Orleans after Katrina: The impact of the growing Hispanic population which came to help with rebuilding and has since stayed on.

Interdisciplinary Institutional Content Assessment: How to best track what students are doing overseas and the benefits for our campuses.

Global Partnerships through Peer Collaboration: How we can better work with institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Tuesday, July 11, 2017

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis granted a rare interview with Teddy Fischerof The Islander(student newspaper of Mercer Island High School). On June 20, 2017, The Islander published the full transcriptof the interview and an answer to one particular question caught my attention as it relates to the value and importance of international educational exchange. I have posted a screen shot of Teddy's question and Secretary Mattis' answer below that I refer to:

It's nice to see another U.S. Secretary of Defense to understand the value of soft power and talk positively about international educational exchange.

Monday, July 10, 2017

Just under three hours ago, a concerning article by Maria Sacchetti and Devlin Barrett entitled "Overseas students would face close scrutiny under proposal floated at DHS" posted to The Washington Post.

Senior officials at the Department of Homeland Security are floating a proposal that would require foreign students to reapply for permission to stay in the United States every year, a controversial move that would create new costs and paperwork for thousands of visa holders from China, India and other nations, according to two federal officials with direct knowledge of the discussions.

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I currently work as the Assistant Provost for Global Education at Columbia College Chicago. Prior to my position at Columbia College, I worked for seventeen years as Associate Director of International Programs at the Booth School of Business, as Senior Adviser
for International Initiatives in The College and as Assistant Director in the
Office of International Affairs, all at The University of Chicago. I also serve as a Study Abroad Research Consultant for the Center for Global Education at California State University at Dominguez Hills. Additionally, I have taught online for The George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development.

I received my B.A. in Spanish and Latin American
Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, my M.S. in
Family Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and my Ph.D. in Cultural and Educational Policy Studies, Comparative and International Education from Loyola University Chicago.

The opinions expressed are my own, and they do not
necessarily represent the views or opinions of my employer.